Theregister.co.uk one of the biggest tech-news site got hacked yesterday by Turkish hacker Turkguvenligi popularly known as Tg.
Many other sites such as Vodafone,National Geographic,Acer and betfair.com got hacked by him simultaneously.The hack was done by dns hijacking method.What he did in the hack was that he replaced the nameservers of the original site with the one he has control over.On one of the defaced site it was written
h4ck1n9 is not a cr1m3. 4 Sept. We TurkGuvenligi declare this day as World Hackers Day – Have fun 
h4ck y0u“.
Here is the screen-shot of the defaced site.
Theregister.co.uk defaced
and here is Tg’s twitter page:
Twitter page of Tg.
He seems to be a big linux fan. In one of his tweets “TurkguvenligiTurkguvenligi linux about: Linux in 10 years very big user won. bill gates stupid, because suspect produces the operating system”
He has the record of hacking all big companies such as Microsoft, Dell , Zdnet, F-Secure, Adobe and many more.Here is the Zone-h record confirming his Microsoft hack. It seems clear from his tweets that he is going to exploit vulnerability of many other sites as well.
Image couresty(defaced site): The Hacker News
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